Well it's anecdotal, but yes, our company fits directly into that space. You might ask why we don't want to just have the hardware in-house, but since we're developing Software as Medical Device products for iOS, we'd rather qualify Amazon as a critical supplier than try to operate the activity ourselves (with all the controls that come with doing so).

Large shops that already run on AWS and where iOS/mac is a small part so they'd rather dish out a few $100k for someone else to manage and have it homogeneous through their other systems.

And it's a standard service that any of their developers can access as needed without needing to either setup their own Macs as a service in a lab or distributing standardized Macs for testing/builds/etc.

For a small shop it probably makes more sense to just buy the Macs, especially if they do a lot of iOS/OSX development.

Large companies who also make their own app… like Amazon. Who are known for selling their own internal tools. ;)

My employer really wants to use this. The IT department dislikes supporting Apple hardware and software. But...we have a product that needs to end up in the Apple App Store. They tried to convince the iOS engineers that it would be fine to work in a virtualized environment (and cheaper), but we really were not convinced that would be workable in the long run. I was willing to give it a shot, but the effort eventually fizzled out, likely over Amazon's costs.

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